Monday, October 3, 2016

We have the power of choice to decide which
foods to buy at the grocery store. The key to success is planning ahead. Planning ahead can improve your food
choices. Healthy decisions start at home.

Start by streamlining your food shopping
to one or two days each week. Fewer trips to supermarket mean fewer opportunities
to buy the wrong types of food.

I do it once a week on weekend when I am not hungry
or rushed for time. I plan what food I need to buy and stick to my shopping
list. By taking the hurry and unpredictability out of food shopping I buy and
stock up foods that are building block for healthy meals.

Friday, September 16, 2016

While eating healthy when away from home could be difficult,
it doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Two days ago I was hungry after a few hours of driving and
almost went to fast food restaurant near the hotel.

Found motivation to go to the supermarket, bought vegetables
and turkey breast and came back to the hotel.

Felt good. I needed positive experience, because it doesn’t always end
up that way for me when I travel. I found it that it was possible. When I was weak and contemplating eating at the fast food restaurant I asked myself what was more important to me.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Many people mistakenly think that foods that are healthy
must necessarily be unsatisfying or taste bad. Of course, that isn’t so.

To
lose weight and keep it off, it is important to change your perception that
healthy foods will not satisfy you as much as your favorite dishes.

Eating healthy does not mean eating foods that you do not
like. It is about getting away from
fake foods and embracing real ones. It means giving your body what it needs to
thrive.Eliminating or at least limiting processed
foods is an important element of healthy eating.

Eating healthy will also ensure that you stay
healthy while using weight.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Real
example of making better choice while eating out. Two photos are from the
same place. I am posting them to show what worked for me at lunch time today. See the difference?

The person I had lunch with made the choice in the upper
photo and drank soda.

I made the choice in the lower photo and drank water. We both were happy with our
choices.Remembering
why we want to lose weight or maintain it, if you are already there, helps when
ordering in restaurants. Planning what to eat and where makes it easier for me.

Friday, August 19, 2016

Failure is everywhere.
People are sick and in pain. This is not necessary. Let's learn how to be successful
in our health. People have lost 50, 75, 100 pounds with minimal effort. They
feel so good, they would never go back to old habits.

Myths:

If I stop eating, I'll
lose weight.

I have to be hungry to
lose weight.

I'll never be able to
have a piece of cheesecake (substitute your favorite) again.

I'll feel deprived.

I'll have to exercise 2
hours every day.

Diabetes runs in the family.

Foods are either
Carbohydrates, Proteins, or Fats. Meals should have 50%
Protein, 25% good carbs, and 25% fats. Monosaturated are the best.

The white stuff is
highly processed. This means it gets into your blood stream as sugar way too
fast. Your blood sugar spikes. Your pancreas has to quickly release insulin to
get your blood sugar back down. It goes too far down. Now you are famished!!
Quick, eat something with sugar or highly processed to get your blood sugar
back up. This roller coaster is bad for your whole body- every cell. Insulin is
our fat storage hormone. Spike blood sugar, release insulin, hold onto fat like
a sponge holds water. This happens when we eat high Glycemic foods.

Eat Protein, good fats,
and unprocessed carbohydrates.

Your blood sugar stays
within a nice normal even range. Your pancreas now releases Glucagon.
Glucagon is our Fat Releasing Hormone. Your blood sugar stays in
the good range. No hunger, no shakiness, no foggy thinking, and Release
Fat!! This happens when we eat low Glycemic foods.

Jump Start with low Glycemic foods for five days. Sugar cravings will go away. Drink 1/2 your
weight in ounces of water. Flavor the water with fruits and herbs so it's not
boring. Walk 30 minutes 3 times a week. Eat low Glycemic foods every 2 1/2 to 3
hours. Nibble a little dark chocolate as a reward.

Focus on what you want,
not what you don't want.

Our brains will believe
whatever we tell it over and over. Say everything in the positive.

Picture yourself as your
new You. Tell yourself how good you look, and how great you feel.

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Guest
post provided by Janice Moranz, MD. Janice
runs Albuquerque Health and Fitness MeetUp Group. The group has over 400
members. You can contact Janice at janicemoranz@comcast.net

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Almost
everyone seems to be on some kind of diet these days. Most of us want to live healthier lives, lose a little bit (or a lot) of
weight, and generally feel better about the food we put into our bodies.

After decades of portion control and counting
calories we still consume lots of empty calories and are becoming a nation of
fat people.

If we don’t seriously and effectively confront it, we may become a
nation of inert, unhealthy, unproductive fat people by the middle of the 21st century.

One does
not need a degree in science to understand why it happens. Diet fatigue and
diet failure happen for a reason. If you restrict how much we can eat you are
likely to end up with the following pattern. You take a break, and start again
later, take another break, start again later and so on.

Even if lose weight,
you will regain your weight or more, when you jump right back to eating “normal”
(pre-diet) size meals.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

While the exercise myth for weight loss still appears in
high-profile initiatives like the first lady's Let's Move! Campaign, more and
more individuals learn and experience that the role of exercise in weight loss
has been wildly overstated. Message that exercise is not important in helping
people lose weight is getting more support in research and in media. I always pointed
out that exercise was good for your health. At the same time I also dared to
say that exercise wasn't necessarily helping us lose weight. My simple truth that that you don’t have to exercise
to lose weight was not getting me many new online friends. This statement was
considered too controversial on some weight loss forums. It even got me banned from
a website that declares that it “helps facilitate honest conversation about
weight loss”. Can you lose weight without exercising? Of course you can. Physical
activity is a minor component to the economy of weight loss. The critical
component is what you eat.

Monday, March 14, 2016

I did not post
for a few months. It was not because I stopped caring about weight loss and healthy
eating. I moved South West from jungle of tall buildings in Manhattan to a beautiful
state of New Mexico.

I want to thank
all of you who contacted me to ask for help with weight loss. I want to thank you
for trust and for sharing with me your challenges and successes. I know that
losing weight is difficult. As soon as we stop doing what works for us, we
start regaining weight.

To everybody
who lost weight by using my method, I hope you remain strong and continue to
live your new live style. I am proud of all of you made an effort. I am glad
that I could help a little. I want to thank you for allowing me to show you that
weight loss is possible without feeling hungry, without exercise, and most
important without paying for any products or services.

I know that it
is not popular message, because there is a huge weigh loss industry that profits
from misery of people who are overweight or obese. The industry that pays
bloggers and others to maintain opinion that weight loss is difficult and that
one must buy products or pay for services to lose weight.

Keep doing what
you are doing if it works for you. Situations and circumstances are different
for all of us, but we all have something in common. Something powerful that nobody
can take away from us.

We all have and
always will have a choice. Choice of what we eat. And that is the most important factor for
those who have struggled or continue to struggle with weight issues.